Diversity Highlights
Featured Stories and Scholars
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Chenai Kadungure
Chenai Kadungure is a global grad from Harare, Zimbabwe. She in the second year of the Master’s program in Global Studies, with a certificate in International Development. 1. What made you choose UNC/NC when deciding on a program/place to study? I applied for the Rotary Peace Fellowship which gave me the option of studying at UNC or Duke. ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Julie Thomas
Julie Thomas is an Active Duty Air Force Family Nurse Practitioner. She is currently an AFIT student in the School of Nursing DNP program (Doctorate of Nursing Practice), in her first year. 1. What is the biggest difference you’ve noticed in transitioning from military life to civilian life? I have no real schedule or structure to my ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Andre Assumpcao
Andre Assumpcao is a global grad from São Paulo, Brazil. He is a third year doctoral student in Public Policy and his research area is political economy of development, with a particular focus on corruption, governance, and electoral systems. 1. What made you choose UNC/NC when deciding on a program/place to study? I applied to UNC because ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Joseph Leshin
Joseph Leshin is a second-year doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, studying the brain basis of human emotion to investigate why and how there is tremendous variability in how each of us experiences emotions. 1. What made you decide to pursue a graduate degree? Many reasons. For starters, excellent and encouraging mentors. Equally important, I am absolutely intrigued ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Sarah Ruth Hoffman
Sarah Ruth Hoffman is a fourth year doctoral student in Epidemiology at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. 1. What made you decide to pursue a graduate degree? I noticed that I was leaving undergrad with deeper questions about my field that I wanted to pursue. More than anything, I wanted to learn the skills that I ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Margaret Tartala
Margaret Tartala is a second year Master’s student in the Department of City and Regional Planning. She also serves as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserves. 1. What is the biggest difference you’ve noticed in transitioning from military life to civilian life? How people communicate is a big difference. In the military, direct communication is ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Dharitri Shah
Dharitri Shah is a global grad from Gujarat, India. She is in the second year of the Master of Healthcare Administration (MHA) program in the Gillings School of Global Public Health. 1. What made you choose UNC/NC when deciding on a program/place to study? UNC was my top choice among all the universities I was interested in, for ...
Global Grads Featured Scholar – Pradeep Pendem
Pradeep Pendem is a fourth year doctoral candidate in Operations Management at Kenan-Flagler Business School. His hometown is Visakhapatnam in the state of Andhra Pradesh, South India. 1. What made you choose UNC/NC when deciding on a program/place to study? I was selected to some of the top business school PhD programs in the U.S. – UNC ...
Carolina Grad Student F1RSTS Featured Scholar – Adante Hart
Adante Hart is in the first year of the Master of Public Health program in Nutrition-Registered Dietitian training (MPH-RD) at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. 1. What made you decide to pursue a graduate degree? Although I earned my undergrad degree in biology, I realized midway through my program that my passions truly lied in ...
Military-Affiliated Grads Featured Scholar – Caroline Cleveland
Caroline Cleveland is in the second year of UNC’s Doctor of Physical Therapy program. She served in the U.S. Army as a platoon leader and assistant S-3 in the 18th Military Police Brigade, and was deployed as one of the first Cultural Support Team leaders attached to the 75th Ranger Regiment in Afghanistan. 1. What is the biggest difference you’ve ...